Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-12

And popular government formed in their
stead
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora and
Crete,
And a dozen or moro Heathen women whom
you know,
street.
The Tyre that in Hadcs once twanged for
Eurydice
And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
ne'er before did see
A place where the truth seems a lie and a
boast.
Where else is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water or
And each visitor feel as II he were some kin
To a God when he brcathcs the electrical
air?
If man has a hundred or two hundred
He will buy lot there, not "A day willhe
For LEUcADIA the lovely the darling, the
dandy,
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
ness,
LEUcADIA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated TO dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUcADIA There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncufivated, which
can by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skirt OF translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres ac
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
| with verdure.
| But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
| bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
| the bedside Of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-=go to the map and look
AL the seaside north OF Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
| ocean-side property. The japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream of the Pacific,
| in its southward Journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuea to Point Conception. The result is
| cold Ivafpr-tnp aNld for com fort able hath
| ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
| fetal heat, and do not bathc in the ocean.
As for Santa Cruz, there is a cOuplet written
by some shiyering pleasure seeker, on the
| walls of a bath house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
"santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
| One "dip, and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
| Barbara-thc cold, ocean current continues
southwark in direct course, while the
Coast line defects; eastwardly at a sharp
tangle, and ina few miles the water, under
/ the genial sims of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
| of the ara real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
| Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
| Fugitive SLAVE law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife. IIc
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente
there is but little coast that is available fol
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep fol
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
while the bluff along the beach is severa
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arroyos, so as to make the ocean PRACTICAL!
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows.
From Pointvicente to San Pedro there ar,
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona. Long Beach, etc.
Below Sah Pedro there are only mud fiat.
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea il
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is ne
ground available for seaside resort unit
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed ant
Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direc
road from Los Angeles to San Diego now il
process of construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held a
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for
lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for residence lots a mile and NOR,
from the beach. Souh of Oceanside is thu
Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fin,
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, hi
will not sell at any price, and if you ammo!
him with an attempt to talk about selling, h,
will make the interview as brief as may b,
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls
bad, and it is a beautiful location, and ther
will be a large town there, and prices of lot
From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sant
dunes and broken ground until You rcacl
the mouth of the San Marcos. From the Sai
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest sit
| in the world for an ocean city and on this sit
is "Leucadia"-the subject of our sketch
lies in the lap of Paradise. She is the faires
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is tn
Venus Amphridite of Southern California
The beach is hard and level. You can driv
along it for twelve miles. For bathing ther
is no need of lines, for the surf, is SO light
would not upset baby, and there being NJ
. lagoons near there are in consequence Ut
stingrays. From the edge of the bluff over
I hanging the beach the ground slopes gentl
up to the top of the first ridge, then it dc
scends gently t valley, through which tn
: railroad runs, then there is gradual ascen
to the top of the second ridge mile or s.
away.
s The amazing thing about Leucadia, and il
. which it differs from every other seaside il
$ California. is in the wonderful fertility o
its soil. The valley and hill slopes are GOV
! 'ered with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus ant
other trees, and they are green with vine
: yards and corn fie ds
Leucadia is in process of preparation TO
the market. Streets and avenues have beel
: cleared, graded, staked and named afte
Greek deities and personages. drinking
r fountain and bath house are being erected
at white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue
I Bath houses on the beach and steps ant
/ grades thereto have been constructed.
: railroad station, after the model of the Pan
theon, has been built, and a dining-roon
, which is conducted by skilful cook. Al
, underground stream of water has beel
c struck which will be raised by cyclone mill
: to a reservoir on the summit of high hill
from which pipes are now being laid through
the avenues.
: TWO HUNDRED LOTS WILL BE OFFER
3 ED AT AUCTION ON WEDNESDAY, OC
: TOBER 26, 1887, and no lots will be solt
t before that date There will be an excursion
. train from Los Angeles to San Diego and re
turn, leaving Los Angeles, Tuesday, Octobe
4 25th, 1887. Holders of excursion tickets OF
, this train will receive at the Office of tn,
Combination Land Company, in San Diego
. free excursion tickets to Leucadia and return
| to San Diego. There. will be music, ant
? teams for driving on the beach and terraces
and fine lunch, all free; and then, after
preliminary address by MIR. THOMAS FITCH
: on Southern California and the Boom,
the prince of auctioneors, Mr.. II. H. MAT
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